Chris Atkinson Archives - Strategic Leadership

28 May

Why Team Building Could be a Waste of Money

By Christopher Atkinson

- The training market has seen a steady, continued growth in the area of team building. More and more companies are committing their three most precious assets - time, money and resources to these events. Why then, in these challenging times with so many cuts being made, are we...

29 Mar

The Essential Guide to Presenting Numbers in an Engaging Way

By Christopher Atkinson

The Essential Guide to Presenting Numbers in an Engaging Way: Recently I was asked by a global client to help their European finance team present their subject in ways that are more engaging for their audience. As I started to develop the session, I realised on almost every course I...

01 Jan

How to Invest in People vs. Processes

By Christopher Atkinson

How to Invest in People vs. Processes A few years ago, a regional utilities client (who had been a client for many years) made a commitment to invest in a new IT infrastructure which would allow for efficient bookings for the field teams and the use of handheld devices...

28 Nov

How to Inspire Engagement – Podcast with Chris Atkinson

By Christopher Atkinson

Last week Chris Atkinson was interviewed by Brett Gajda for his podcast Where There's Smoke - they discussed inspiration and engagement. The interview includes debate about where people go wrong, our misunderstandings of the topic and three techniques to inspire others.

27 Oct

5 Things You Can Do To Lead Workplace Wellbeing In Your Team

By Kate Tuck

In the pursuit of productivity targets and results, one of the things that often suffers is people’s work life balance. The irony being that this has a direct impact on the very same targets we are trying to achieve. Employee wellbeing is taken into account in business decisions only...

02 Oct

How Your Business Can Adapt To Millennials

By Kate Tuck

Recently a video by author and speaker Simon Sinek went viral on social media achieving over 78 million views on Facebook alone. The hot topic was about millennials (people born after 1984) in the workplace. The narrative in the media took a very negative tone about what he was...

12 Apr

How to Motivate People Beyond Money

By Christopher Atkinson

The imperative to make a critical shift forward is written on the walls of our workplaces. Money is not enough, because in a world of increasing change, challenges, competition the litmus test, the NEW currency of success is providing YOUR people, YOUR bread and butter, the foundation of YOUR...

23 Mar

Quick Insight: Praise and Recognition

By Christopher Atkinson

Critical feedback seems like a good way of increasing performance but research is demonstrating that the role of strengths is far more important than we imagined.

28 Feb

Quick Insight: Leadership Communication

By Christopher Atkinson

So much communication from leaders fails completely to achieve its objective. We explore what causes this failure and how to really engage our people with great communication.

14 Feb

Quick Insight: The Role of Vision

By Christopher Atkinson

Why bother with a vision? Sadly most company visions don’t inspire teams, leaders need to do better with vision to really engage their people. Learn why it is so important then transform your leadership by using vision techniques.